The chance for BIOS corruption is a readily understood risk. An improperly coded BIOS file, a bad flash routine, a power failure, and a variety of other problems can occur during the update.

Even after a failed flash, a potentially dead motherboard can possibly still be recovered. Most BIOS manufacturers (Award, Phoenix, AMI, and Insyde) now include an option known as Boot Block protection. The Boot Block sector is write protected, thus it can only be damaged if the flash utility is explicitly directed by a command line switch to overwrite this EEPROM memory range. The Boot Block can load the most basic BIOS functions for the simple I/O operation of ISA video, floppy drive transfers, and keyboard input. Luckily these features are all that is generally required to rebuild the entire working BIOS.

The instructions below specify using arbitrary names (like bios.fd) for the recovery information. In most cases you can determine the correct file recovery name for your machine by using Andy P’s SLIC tool from My Digital Life. This will help you determine the correct recovery name for your BIOS when you load it into the tool and will also help you make sure you correctly identify your BIOS type (Award, AMI, Phoenix, Insyde, etc.)

First of all you should do a BIOS update one version to another dont hop around. (i.e. A02-A03) Each BIOS is like a patch, its not a software bundle.
You can reflash the bios via .bin files by extracting them from the .exe files using 7-zip.
You are going to need a heatgun to remove the BIOS chip and a SF-100 to program the bios.

I have recently bricked a lenovo z500 and have tried to restore bios using the Insyde Bios recovery method. I have noticed that my laptop fails to read from the pen-drives.
Or the Cd drive or HDD. THey just power up and start spinning but I’m guessing the data lines are damaged.
Please help.

Hello, Yes, The pen drives starts blinking after 3-4 minutes, blink for sometime and then stop again.
I used Phoenix tool and got the recovery file name to be VIWZ1.bin. However, no matter what endless combinations of file names I use, I get the same Lights blinking, stopping cycle.

Hi.
I have a Packard Bell Easynote, but i’m not entirely sure what model it is. Which is why it’s bricked in the first place. It says EasyNote R0355, which would make it an EasyNote R series? I, downloaded the second one from here ftp://ftp.download.packardbell.com/NOTEBOOK/EasyNote%20R0%20series/Bios/ and flashed enr3bios107.exe. This bricked the BIOS. So it’s either totally the wrong model, or i flashed the wrong revision (seems to be rev0 and rev3?) IDK 🙁
Can anyone help me figure out how to recover? The laptop blinks with the CD tray light and it’s like its trying to load a BIOS file. Ive tried extracting the BIOS’s files from the PB exe files but it wont load them. Andys’s tools says its not anything it recognizes. (tried both) Please help! It seems to me that the USB bus is not powered anymore. (doesnt light up USB sticks or USB floppy).

Hi! can anyone explain to me how this tool works and how can i find the the correct file recovery name for my lenovo 3000 N200 who is bricked because of a bios failed update? or just send me a tutorial!

I bricked a Colorfly i898a tablet when I was trying to change its bios from the one that works for x64 android to the one that should have allowed me to install Windows on the tablet.
I bricked it with this (flashing tool and bios): mega.nz/#!Q1Y3zAxI!iVpugZ7d2PdH7BS6j7wDzBf7_6yMmJWk1v6siiMSVQs
Here is a link to the newest original firmware for this tablet: mega.nz/#!M9pnAYzB!n1miXJwY69ZWZP_LqAZM8NURpr6HIQM08xYoCyUjCqg

It’s got an Insyde UEFI firmware. I tried recover it using a USB key (FAT32) with the following files on it: BYTC.BIN, BYTCHW.BIN, PA03.BIN, PA03HW.BIN, BYTC.FD, BYTCHW.FD, PA03.FD, PA03HW.FD, BYTC.ROM, BYTCHW.ROM, PA03.ROM, PA03HW.ROM, BYTC.WPH, BYTCHW.WPH, PA03.WPH, PA03HW.WPH (PA03 is first 4 letters from the name of the bios that actually bricked the tablet, BYTC is a first part of the name of .bin files that can be found in the archive with latest firmware).

I did not disassemble this tablet yet so I don’t have access to its battery.